Seven days of questions and answers

Minecraft Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 10 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which of these biomes is classified as a cold biome and can generate snow-covered terrain?

    Answer: Taiga

    The Taiga biome is a cold biome where snow layers and snowfall can appear, and it is the only one among these options classified as cold.

  2. Which boots enchantment temporarily turns nearby water into frosted ice while its wearer walks?

    Answer: Frost Walker

    Frost Walker creates temporary frosted ice on water near the boots of the moving wearer.

  3. Which listed mob commonly spawns on the Overworld surface at night rather than from a structure-specific spawner?

    Answer: Spider

    Spiders commonly spawn in dark Overworld areas, while cave spiders, silverfish, and endermites have more specialized spawning conditions.

  4. What effect does the Swift Sneak enchantment on leggings grant the player?

    Answer: Faster walking while sneaking

    Swift Sneak increases the player's movement speed while sneaking, making it invaluable for traversing the dangerous sculk-filled corridors of Ancient Cities without triggering traps.

  5. Which climbable block can be extended upward while the player remains near its base?

    Answer: Scaffolding

    Scaffolding can be climbed and extended upward by placing additional scaffolding against the lower part of the stack.

Daily round

  1. What does a repeater do to a redstone signal passing through it?

    Answer: Amplifies it back to strength 15 and adds a delay

    A redstone repeater boosts any incoming signal back to full strength of 15 and introduces a configurable delay of one to four ticks.

  2. Which passive mob can be ridden with a saddle and guided with a carrot on a stick?

    Answer: Pig

    Pigs can be saddled and controlled using a carrot on a stick, though they cannot jump and are slower than horses.

  3. Which curse makes an equipped item disappear instead of dropping when its owner dies?

    Answer: Curse of Vanishing

    The Curse of Vanishing is a negative enchantment that causes an item to disappear when the player dies instead of dropping on the ground, making it the opposite of what most players want.

  4. What effect does drinking milk remove from the player?

    Answer: All active status effects

    Drinking a bucket of milk clears every active status effect on the player, both positive and negative.

  5. Which neutral mob becomes hostile if you look directly at its face?

    Answer: Enderman

    Endermen turn hostile when a player places their crosshair directly on the mob's upper body or face, provoking an attack.

Daily round

  1. Which interface can arrange nine matching ingots to craft a compact storage block?

    Answer: Crafting Grid

    Using the standard crafting grid, players can place nine ingots or other items in a square to compress them into a storage block, and placing that block in any crafting grid decomposes it back into nine units.

  2. Which object atop an obsidian spike heals the Ender Dragon until it is destroyed?

    Answer: End Crystal

    End Crystals on the obsidian spikes restore the Ender Dragon's health until players destroy them.

  3. Which tall, dark skeleton found in Nether Fortresses inflicts the Wither effect with melee attacks?

    Answer: Wither Skeleton

    Wither Skeletons spawn in Nether Fortresses and can inflict the Wither effect when they strike in melee.

  4. What must a farmer villager have access to in order to compost crops and produce bone meal?

    Answer: A composter block

    A composter block allows farmer villagers to convert excess seeds and crops into bone meal over time, and players can also manually compost plant items in it.

  5. What effect does sleeping in a bed during a thunderstorm have?

    Answer: It advances time to dawn like normal sleep

    Sleeping in a bed during a thunderstorm skips the night and moves time to dawn the same way it does on a clear night, also ending the storm.

Daily round

  1. Which redstone component can invert a signal by turning off when its attached block becomes powered?

    Answer: Redstone Torch

    A Redstone Torch turns off when the block it is attached to receives power, so it can act as a basic signal inverter.

  2. Which listed full block is visually transparent?

    Answer: Glass

    Glass is transparent and lets players see through it, while cobblestone, dirt, and sandstone are opaque.

  3. Which curse makes an equipped item disappear instead of dropping when its owner dies?

    Answer: Curse of Vanishing

    The Curse of Vanishing is a negative enchantment that causes an item to disappear when the player dies instead of dropping on the ground, making it the opposite of what most players want.

  4. Which potion effect allows a player to see in complete darkness?

    Answer: Night Vision

    The Night Vision effect illuminates the player's view even in areas with zero light level, such as caves or the ocean floor, without actually changing the light level of surrounding blocks.

  5. Which item, when equipped in the chest armor slot, allows the player to glide through the air?

    Answer: Elytra

    Elytra is a pair of wing-like items worn in the chestplate slot that enables gliding flight when the player jumps from a height or is launched by a firework rocket.

Daily round

  1. Which hostile mob can transform into a Drowned after remaining submerged in water?

    Answer: Zombie

    A Zombie that remains submerged begins converting and eventually becomes a Drowned.

  2. Which of these blocks can only be found inside a stronghold and is essential for locating the End portal?

    Answer: An end portal frame

    End portal frames are blocks that appear only in the portal room of a stronghold, and Eyes of Ender must be placed into them to activate the portal to the End.

  3. What does Dragon's Breath convert a Splash Potion into when combined in a brewing stand?

    Answer: A lingering potion

    Dragon's Breath turns a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion, which creates a lingering cloud of particles on impact that applies the effect to any entity passing through it.

  4. Which hostile mob explodes after approaching the player and flashing white?

    Answer: Creeper

    Creepers silently approach players, hiss and flash white as a warning, then explode dealing area damage.

  5. What does the Wither effect do to an entity it is applied to?

    Answer: Drains health and turns hearts black

    The Wither status effect deals ongoing damage and tints the affected entity's health bar black, similar to poison but capable of killing.

Daily round

  1. Which Nether mob flies near fortress spawners and attacks by launching small fireballs?

    Answer: Blaze

    Blazes are found in Nether fortresses and drop blaze rods, which are essential for brewing potions and reaching the End.

  2. Which passive mob follows a player who is holding wheat?

    Answer: Sheep

    Sheep are attracted to players holding wheat, which is also used to breed them.

  3. Which undead Nether mob is usually neutral but causes nearby members of its group to retaliate when attacked?

    Answer: Zombified Piglin

    Zombified Piglins are normally neutral, but attacking one provokes nearby Zombified Piglins to retaliate.

  4. What do striders drop when killed in the Nether?

    Answer: String

    Striders are passive Nether mobs that drop string upon death and can be ridden across lava seas using a warped fungus on a stick.

  5. What is the primary purpose of Crying Obsidian found in Nether portal ruins and bastion remnants?

    Answer: Crafting respawn anchors

    Crying Obsidian is used alongside gold blocks to craft a Respawn Anchor, which allows players to set their spawn point in the Nether.

Daily round

  1. Which Overworld structure is a small cobblestone room containing a monster spawner and loot chests?

    Answer: Dungeon

    A dungeon is a small room made from cobblestone and mossy cobblestone with a monster spawner and loot chests.

  2. What must a player build and light on fire to travel to the Nether?

    Answer: Nether Portal

    A Nether portal is constructed from obsidian blocks in a rectangular frame and activated with flint and steel or a fire charge.

  3. Which Nether structure contains Blaze spawners and naturally spawning Blazes?

    Answer: Nether Fortress

    Nether Fortresses contain Blaze spawners and fortress areas where Blazes naturally spawn.

  4. Which biome is known for mycelium-covered terrain and naturally spawning mooshrooms?

    Answer: No hostile mobs spawn there naturally

    Mushroom Fields feature mycelium across the surface and are the natural home of mooshrooms.

  5. Which Nether mob can be saddled and ridden across lava?

    Answer: Strider

    A saddled Strider can carry a player across lava and can be guided with a warped fungus on a stick.